Adelaide Green Car Plant gains grassroots support.

by Christopher Burrell on June 2, 2009

in Issues, News, environmentally-friendly solutions

This is a Press Release I sent out today on our proposal for a green car plant in Adelaide.
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Proponents of a new Australian Green Car Plant utilise email and cyber networking to garner support to ‘fast track’ project.
The American automotive industry crisis, as illustrated by Anne Davies [link], whilst regrettable may provide [...]

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The Third Wave by Tim Flannery

by Christopher Burrell on May 11, 2009

in Issues, climate change, environmentally-friendly solutions

As I write, in mid March, a geriatric sandy-coloured rat wanders his enclosure at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Death can’t be far off for the poor creature, which would hardly matter except that, as far as anybody knows, he’s the last central rock-rat on Earth. The species once abounded in the rocky ranges of [...]

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The big picture

March 18, 2009

Aurora Australis aspires to aid the formation of a global charter.
That is, of assisting the people of the earth to become strong & united, that individuals increase their capacity to influence & determine issues critical to our survival & future well being. As witnessed by the growing acceptance in the human consciousness of the reality [...]

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A Big Fix

March 17, 2009

A Big Fix
Radical solutions for Australia’s environmental crisis
The warnings from scientists are urgent and unequivocal – our civilisation is unwittingly stepping in front of an ecological lorry that is about to flatten us. We are using resources future generations will need, damaging environmental systems and compromising social stability by increasing the gap between rich [...]

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Kool (green) Ideas for air ambulance crisis?

January 30, 2009

It’s all over the news during the heatwave:

AIR ambulance helicopter crews are collapsing with heat exhaustion on rescue flights because temperatures in the non-air-conditioned cabins sometimes hit 50C.

Leaving aside the politics of how these helicopters came to be ordered without air conditioning units in the first place, what is needed is a quick, reliable solution. And what do you know? An Australian manufacturer has an existing product

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How We Can Live with Less and Still Feel Rich

December 25, 2008

By David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. Posted December 25, 2008.

Here’s how government can help curb America’s seemingly endless appetite for “more.”   

On a sunny weekday morning late last spring at the Mall at 163 St. in North Miami Beach, Fla., in the parking lot outside

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A powerful new vision for confronting climate change

October 31, 2008

An inspiring article from Gristmill, regarding a recently unveiled “Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security,” drawn up by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.

The main points of the manifesto:

  • Industrial globalized agriculture contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change

  • Ecological and organic farming contributes to mitigation and adaptation to climate change

  • Transition to local, sustainable food systems benefits the environment and public health

  • Biodiversity
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Food for thought

October 27, 2008

From the Sydney Morning Herald: Future Farms Over Our Heads

AUSTRALIAN cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says.

Professor Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine, said the global food crisis was a forewarning of what could be expected as civilisation ran low on water, arable land and nutrients, and experienced soaring energy costs.

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